Guardis civil helicopter incident
 

Hello,

a pilot "f..... up" taking of,
turning the Bo105 around his position - instead around the tailrotor - or first moving sideways to clear the space for the tailrotor.
Luckily, after tailrotorcontact, he reacted fine and didn´t try to fly away...
The tailwind didn´t help either I think.

Un helicóptero de Guardia Civil accidentado en una exhibición en Las Palmas. eldia.es.

Best post incident comment I've read in a while :hmm:

:= incredible display of incompetence; zero situational awareness by the Pilot, hopeless pick-up, amazingly he didn't fly away after botching up the lift-off from a huge H :ugh:

We all make mistakes but where do you start with that one? its off the scale. If you pick up a helicopter like that then you are destined for a dynamic rollover incident at some point in your career and there are just too many ways to have avoided that tail strike to list them all!

Was that really a qualified professional helicopter pilot at the controls?

When they said "it's bring your kid to work day", they should have mentioned that did not include letting them take the controls!

You guys are being very harsh.

It might well be a local community programme to allow those living in the Blind Institute next door to experience helicopter flight. Or the helmet may have slipped on take-off, or she may simply have been injecting some realism into a tail rotor failure demo.
:eek:

You have to accept it is a good advert for the yellow bum line 212man!

TeeS

Anther interesting view here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UYpZ2VA0c4I



It somewhat contradicts the official statement:
I see they use the same training academy as the Greek Air Force!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lv7T1OXWMwo



Can't work out how to use the Youtube imbed button!

On that last YT video did anyone catch the coning angle? :mad:

I've said it before and I'll say it yet one more time. More than 50% of the pilots I see in the course of my job cannot be described as competent. Maybe they have the potential to be competent but they would need a lot more 'input' to realise it. When will we wake up and understand that 'attending' a course is not the same as 'passing' a course. We are not served well by the way we are doing things in the world of licensing pilots.

It's not just me, the Ryanair HoT said at a recent conference that 50% of those applicants for flight deck jobs FAILED their selection process.

Come on guys - we can do better than this.

G.

Showboating in a confined area with public very close by :sad::sad:

We have all been guilty of showboating before. Words of advice I was given as a young pilot: If your impromptu audience are general public then a Low and Slow fly past (beach bimble) is more impressive than a high energy manoeuvre and 10 times safer. The public get a good view and experience the noise, vibration and whirring rotors and you get more time to wave at the cute ones.

Bell_ringer,

Very drole! ��

It never fails to surprise how readily some pilots stupidly put themselves outside of their personal limits, or those of their helicopter. Most of these "wing-over" crashes are totally avoidable.

The inexperienced and foolish see the wing-over as an easy manoeuvre, but they are very easy to get very badly wrong.

Max, you are Soooooooooo correct in that statement. At airshows, the helicopter explores the full flight envelope, the crowd are mildly impressed. A Tornado takes off on reheat; guess which video goes on YouTube?
I ALWAYS fly as smooth as possible when doing famil flights, whilst watching other pilots scaring pax fartless, all the time thinking they are impressing them.
Just fly normally in all situations, the public don't care how good you are.......

After dinging the tail rotor, the video runs for quite a while but the pilot still hasn't pulled the throttles back to idle.

Hingeless rotor, so no coning. Definite case of bad blade stall though I think. :D Where's AnFI with his encyclopaedic knowledge when you need him?

Surely, the B105 in the OP suffered LTE.

(After it departed the airframe).

More recent Spanish Civil Guard 105 action;

Spanish mountaineers saved by a pilot who flies so close to a cliff they can step on